Washington.—A new national heir.
foom has been added to the While
House collection,
It is the gold nugget
telegraph key which five
have used to open celebrations,
nels, canals, newspapers, fairs
bridges throughout the country,
The key was given to President Wil-
fiam H. Taft, June 1, 1900, to open
the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition,
Mounted on its five-inch marble slab
were 22 nuggets of Alaskan gold taken
from thé Klondike August 16, 1800,
"when the precious metal was first dis-
covered there,
The gold was offered for the key by
George W. Carmack, discovered of the
Klondike flelds. Its original value was
£500 but its historic value has been
trebled and quadrupled by the cere-
monies in which it has taken part,
The first ceremony was held in the
and marble
Presidents
tun-
and
East room nearly 22 years ago. Pres-
ext were Mr, Taft and all the dignl-
taries of the cabinet and diplomatic
corps, The key was mounted on a
table, connected with a special wire
to Seattle where the exposition was
being held. Manipulating it was BE,
W. Smithers, White House telegrapher,
After Taft had pressed it, giving the
signal for opening of the exposition,
Smithers Induced the President to let
him be custodian eof it. He has guard-
ed it since. Recently it has been kept
in the White House safe, as if it were
a crown jewel. Smithers says he In-
tends to leave it there to continue its
historle career, although now it is
his personal property.
In the entire key there Is but one
small point which is not gold, That
is the contact point for transmission
of the electrical impulse,
Among the famous
occasions upon
One of the most daring
of one thief and the
ehecks which they had
Mich. Theodore Crowley,
had cut the wire caging
cage during an unguarded moment.
treasurer's office stood less
captured
000 in and £25000 in
hall of
an
cash
age In the city
he and
tax recelj
Detroit,
told how
accompll
ts, from the
mostly
away.
which the key
idents are:
1013—Opening Gambo dike, Panama
canal. 1915-The California exposi-
tion, 1027-—The Holland tunnels un-
der the Hudson river, New York, and
the Moffat water tunnel outside Den-
ver, Colo, 1028-The Hawallian fair,
the impulse being transmitted across
the ocean by wireless; the Cascade
tunnel, 1930—The Hoover-Longview
bridge, Washington,
has been used by Pres.
‘SOF T PI PLACES
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK |
Dean of Men, University of
1 Hlinois.
CCC CROAK
Wulf and Smid were talking
er and plotting to marry
the Amal and
Smid was 'hang-
ing back, hesitat-
ing to take the
dangerous step,
“Well, well,” he
admitted finally in
explanation of his
momentary hesita-
tion and weakness,
“wise men are like
mooriands -- ride
as far as you will
on the sound
ground, you
sure to come upon
a soft place at last
I have had little experience in rid
ing over moorlands, bt I remember
} looked as even as
safe almost as
togeth-
Hypatia to
are
the prairies,
a floor,
+
Hey
as smooth and
a8 macadam road, and covered with
short grass they spread out as far as
the eve could reach. Sixteen miles we
could see to the southeast over an un-
broken plain to where a single cot-
tonwood stood, But there were soft
marshy places one found if he set out
to ride far; there were gopher Roles
and uneven dangerous spots where
prairie wolves had burrowed into the
ground or where groundhogs had slept
during the winter. One had to be cau-
tious and to remember that the appar-
ently unbroken surface of the prairie
had its uneven places where a horse
might stumble and the rider's life
In danger.
But In spite
be
of its spots the moor-
land Is a very beautiful place; In
spite of its gopher holes and its wolf
dens the prairie had its fascinations;
it was wonderful, impressive, roman-
tic and satisfying.
It is not str that when we ex-
amine the lives and characters of hu-
man beings we should find them like
the moorland or prairie—sof!
places, occasionally gopher holes,
and It should
from the
Hives to fing
perfect
blographers have
take most delight in emphasizing the
soft spots in the lives of the great
men whom they written,
rather than the beauty
strength and the wide expans of
,
golld ground.
ange
the
not d
strength and
] that they
nothing human i=.
marshy
tract seriously
beauty of thelr
were not
tecent
EPOLs, A
seemed to
about have
an the
fin thi
store Ney aper Union.)
Living Creatures on
Mars and Venus, Belief
Cambridge. —«( Jontri ary to belief of
other eminent scientists Dr Leon
Campbell, Harvard
lleves that there
ets In our solar system, He think:
ridiculous to that the
is the only inhabited planet, and
at least two n Mars and
support living creatures,
f#etrono
mer,
is life on other
believe
ore,
STYLISH IN COLOR
oA AN
is this spring suit
red and white crepe, with
ar and cuff version in
white A complement
2 rin of the
In excellent taste
novel of
rchedd linen,
Mississippi Farmer's
Hog and Dog Are Pals
mbus, Miss. Lanier,
here, has a dog and oe
friends, 14 nier sa)
arable
Kweet
Prowling
Owls Lured
go.~When the hig horned owls
other feathere
1 valuable game and song birds
tors which
through
Michig
bar
interliont ¥
intriguing
3
see several
SWHAYIDE, ing
nches above
These
the groun
dancing pigs
By WALTER TRUMBULL
A zoologi
tional medi
whose parents
them around th
the
zoo and see
parts of the
jJaer was
ont
intr
Park at dusk,
the police hay
heard a commotl
HOE
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i "He
rection of
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COLLECTED FREE RIDE
N
Simon Fishman of Greeley county,
Kansas, went west thrityfive years
ago and planted several thousand
acres of wheat in the middle of un-
eultivated plains. At the time he pre-
dicted to L. M. Baldwin, president of
the Missouri Pacific railroad, that that
callway would some day carry 1,000.
000 bushels of wheat for export. Bald
win's reply was that when that hap.
pened Fishman could “get into my
private ear and go anywhere you wish
on the system.” Fishman has just been
collecting the free ride, accompanied
by his wife and daughter,
» buffalo pen, and paused to investi-
here were for r
and a8 much buffalo,
Maggie,’ would
m! one of them wot
a rock. Maggie got
If she could have
t pen she would have m
ters warm for the kids, but st
only giare and kick. Thus the
of New York studies natural history.
* - *
told that the largest
rug ever woven in a single
is now being made by a firm in
Czechoslovakia, which has furnished
carpets to the White House and the
royal courts of Europe, for the main
lobby of the new Waldorf, The size
of this adaptation of a Persian garden
carpet will be 70 feet 2 inches by 49
feet 11 inches, I regret that they
skimped that extra inch In width.
They could just as well have made it
fan 50 feet: but, at that, it will
be a grand rug to drop ashes on. 1
don't see how a fellow with a eig-
arette could miss,
* . .
small
they yeil,
id sock
very hot
broken out
ade mat
& Cou id
youth
I am
tufted
plece
hand.
even
to an aviator,
and she and
off. The
then the
above the
ship
His
A girl became engaged
He was starting a flight
the family went to zee him
plane got away well and
pilot circled around, flew
heads of the family, rolled the
and waggled the wings in salute,
fiancee began to cry.
“What's the matter?”
her,
“Can't you see?
nanily.
they asked
* she replied Indig-
“The poor darling’s seasick.”
. 4
Young people of today have plenty
of courage. An art student on the
Pacific const married a girl of about
his own age. Their assets consisetd
of a battered Ford and about £300,
They drove the car East, where the
girl had relatives. They decided that
the boy's best chance lay In his study-
ing art In Paris. He therefore took
the bankroll and sailed for France,
leaving the girl and the Ford with the
relatives. She expects to get a Job
nil i nd Is away and
sure that, on his return, thes will
prosg How he is going t
over there and that
ital Is a bit of
of them
it.
WTOUSR,
get back on
A mystery, put 1
ears to be
A Brooklyn an recently stabbed
ife 10 times becanuss
i about ming he
wouldn't let him go to
evidence would seen ind
she certainly him wide
(2. 1931, vt
she nagged
inte and
The
that
me
§ gains
sieeD,
licate
nwake,
Rervice
gt
Del 1 Syndicate 3s
CLEVELAND’ S “FIND”
Joe VYosmik, the young Cleveland
outfielder, who has been the biggest
sensation of the major leagues to
date, Up from the Cleveland sand.
lots, this youngster has been hitting
brilliantly and also has starred in the
field.
Country's Storm Centers
The middie and northern plains and
the region of the Great lakes have
ters as New Englund,
placed
kos per
Bay City, Mick
rests on
bird. A
a stake
When
own
reason why §
keep on ma
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By Charles Sughroe
LEI 2
Personality Big Part
of Community's Assets
needed for the
LLL
Four requisites are
creation of a desirable community.
Dr, Charles hompson, dean of the
school of commerce of the University
of Illinois, points them out as follows:
Diversified, prosperous industrial life;
honest, efficient, economical local gov-
ernment ;
pread and
persons
1
The la
51 ¥
wides education,
lity
list is one
or
3.2 nd ‘
which olive
Walch gi
his
immunities
requisite in
overlook
ignore,
a distinet touch to a
and sets part from
identical advantages in population, in-
dustry, government and sc Com-
personality is not iit In a
munity 3
day, ne can it be made to order.
qualities whicl sity
commun:
others that have
: hools,
ither
It 1s one of the
unconsciously acquires ss
cultivate lofty pri
ernment,
The
such a city car
culture
men and who reside
em to ot!
communities the evid of this
munity
the name of
personal
the
£1
gests to new
are worths
Richmond
Always Fire- Resisting
ery" f fire-re
with ti i roduction o #1-
more ORR
Herbert E
in the
fo the ¢
cost
Home Buyer's Requirements
home desig
en, Chi
n y
{ il ry
It he cu Ration of
working and sa | I the
place of his eatest happiness
nust not o
of light and
ate transpor-
provide
heat
tation
must
ilities-it
re prese: * Crea.
tion for wt
planned and of which he
“Some builders
this wlogy ome
and wonder why he reacts
when shown the supposed advantages
of a box-like structure, similar in
every cut and design to the st
ing homes. The infl of the we
an in home buying also is either un-
recognized or. at least, the developer
does not know what a deciding influ.
ence real distinet architec.
tural design will have upon the few-
inline mind.”
ani
DE
adversely
psych
irround-
uence me
iveness of
Plea for Vegetable Gardens
0. L. Moore, secretary-ireasurer
of the Onion Set Dealers’ and Grow-
ers’ association, said at a meeting at
Chicago:
“When prosperity abounded
gardens were given up even by
town residents wht had ample
to plant the seeds sent them by
congressmen,
“Now, however, we can safely pre
dict that suburbanites, men with city
lots and residents of small commu
nities are going to renew back-yard
agriculture to supply the family table.”
home
small
room
thelr
Plan “Smokeless Town"
The building of a “smokeless town,"
a residential community of 200 homes
in New York city, which will use gas
for all service purposes, including
house heating, is described in the Ap.
palachian, issued by Appalachian Gas
corporation. Health Commissioner
Wynne of New York recently stated
that the smoke evil costs New York
290,000,000 yearly,
Beauty of Old Brick
The paramount lesson of old brick
structures is an appreciation of the
mellowed beauty that comes inevitably
with the years. No other type of ex
terior wall material insures it or ap-
preaches it In artistic appeal to such
an extent.